With a late January Big 12 Challenge matchup with Oklahoma State still left, South Carolina is 5-7 in nonconference games this season.
There’s more than a few ways to look at the record. Three of the losses have come against teams that have combined to go 35-3. Virginia is ranked by KenPom.com as the No. 2 team in the country, Michigan is No. 5 and Clemson is 34. Three other losses are to teams with a combined 32-11 record, including home downers to Wofford (No. 64 on KenPom) and Stony Brook (160).
And then there’s the 73-64 defeat at Wyoming, the worst of them all.